Sensors
Browse our extensive range of sensor modules and breakout boards, covering temperature, distance, motion, touch, liquid level, radar, infrared, and more. Whether you're building with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or your own custom PCB, you'll find the right sensor for your project.
Popular with Australian makers, students, and engineers for robotics, home automation, environmental monitoring, and STEM education. Fast shipping Australia-wide from our local warehouse.
PIR Motion Sensor
SKU: LB-00158 | Brand: Little Bird
This PIR sensor is suitable for use with Arduino and Raspberry PI. The 3.3v logic level is very handy as it allows you to use this sensor with 3.3v Arduinos like the Due or Pro Mini as well as 5V like the Uno as 3....
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Ultrasonic Distance Sensor HC-SR04
SKU: LB-LR0230 | Brand: Little Bird
The HC-SR04 is a widely used ultrasonic distance sensor that measures distances from 2cm to 500cm (approximately 5 metres) with 1cm resolution. It works by emitting a 40kHz ultrasonic pulse, then measuring the time it...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Soil Moisture Sensor
SKU: LB-LR0040 | Brand: Little Bird
This versatile soil moisture sensor is designed for easy integration with both Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects, making it a great choice for hobbyists and developers alike. It features both analog and adjustable ...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Automatic pot plant watering kit
SKU: LB-LS0835 | Brand: Little Bird
Do you love your plants? Do you want the best for them? Or are you more like me and forget they are there until your mother is about to come over then rush round the house making sure they have been wat...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Bulk LDR Photoresistor - 10 pack
SKU: LB-BK-LR0282 | Brand: Little Bird
Description This Light Dependant Resistor (LDR) can be used to easily measure ambient light with your Arduino or other board with analog input. You will need to set this up as a voltage divider with a resistor of a...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Raspberry Pi Sense HAT rev.2
SKU: RP-SC0329 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
Raspberry Pi Sense HAT V2 — Your Mission Control for Data, Dazzle, and DIY Experiments!What if your Raspberry Pi could sense everything—orientation, weather, movement, your own code-controlled lightshow…and let you in...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
12V Precision Temperature Controller with 3 digit display 10Amp Relay
SKU: LB-LR0214-16 | Brand: Little Bird
This compact 12V temperature controller features a 3-digit LED display for setting and monitoring temperature, along with a built-in 10A relay for switching heating or cooling loads. It uses an NTC thermistor probe (i...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Waterproof DS18B20 Digital Temperature Sensor For Arduino
SKU: DF-DFR0198 | Brand: DFRobot
This is a waterproofed version of the DS18B20 Temperature sensor. Handy for when you need to measure something far away, or in wet conditions. While the sensor is good up to 125°C the cable is jacketed in PV...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
1-Wire Digital Temperature Sensor for Raspberry Pi - Assembled (1m)
SKU: LB-LR-DIGI-TEMP-1M-A | Brand: Little Bird
The Little Bird 1-Wire Digital Temperature Sensor for Raspberry Pi — a plug-and-play solution for environment sensing, data logging, and IoT applications. Simply plug it onto the Raspberry Pi GPIO header as shown — no...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Copper Tape - Conductive Adhesive, 5mm (100ft)
SKU: LB-LR0327 | Brand: Little Bird
Need more? Copper tape has countless applications in electronics from creating low-profile traces for electrical components to RF-shielding and antenna-making. Copper tape is even used to join things together using...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
50cm NTC Thermistor Temperature Sensor 10K 3470
SKU: LB-LS2696 | Brand: Little Bird
A waterproof NTC thermistor temperature sensor with a 100cm (1 metre) cable and stainless steel probe. The 10KΩ resistance at 25°C and standard B-constant make it easy to read with an Arduino or other microcontroller ...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
1-Wire Digital Temperature Sensor for Raspberry Pi - Assembled (3m)
SKU: LB-LR-DIGI-TEMP-3M-A | Brand: Little Bird
The Little Bird 1-Wire Digital Temperature Sensor for Raspberry Pi — a plug-and-play solution for environment sensing, data logging, and IoT applications. Simply plug it onto the Raspberry Pi GPIO header — no breadboa...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Light-dependent Resistor Sensor Module
SKU: LB-24-LIGHT | Brand: Little Bird
Light-dependent resistors are electronic components whose resistance changes with light intensity. They are also called LDRs, photoresistors, or photoconductors. It has four pins:3.3V : While 'VCC'...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
LDR Photoresistor
SKU: LB-LR0282 | Brand: Little Bird
This Light Dependant Resistor (LDR) can be used to easily measure ambient light with your Arduino or other board with analog input. You will need to set this up as a voltage divider with a resistor of around 10KΩ. ...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
RFID Reader with Cards Kit- 13.56MHz
SKU: EC-CRF1356KIT | Brand: Elecrow
This RFID kit includes a 13.56M RF reader module, which use the RC522 IC, plus 2 S50 RFID cards to help you learn and add the 13.56 MHz RF transition to your project. The MF RC522 is a highly integrated transmission m...
Delivered by Mon 29 Jun
Gyroscope and accelerometer in one
SKU: LB-LR0044 | Brand: Little Bird
This compact MPU-6050 module combines a MEMS accelerometer and MEMS gyroscope in a single chip for detecting movement, tilt and rotation across the X, Y and Z axes.Each channel is captured with 16-bit analogue-to-digi...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor
SKU: PR-PIM357 | Brand: Little Bird
The state-of-the-art BME680 breakout lets you measure temperature, pressure, humidity, and indoor air quality, and is Raspberry Pi and Arduino-compatible! Use this breakout to monitor every aspect of your indoor en...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
1-Wire Digital Temperature Sensor for Raspberry Pi - Unassembled (1m)
SKU: LB-LR-DIGI-TEMP-1M-UA | Brand: Little Bird
The Little Bird 1-Wire Digital Temperature Sensor for Raspberry Pi — a plug-and-play solution for environment sensing, data logging, and IoT applications. Simply plug it onto the Raspberry Pi GPIO header — no breadboa...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
IR Infrared Obstacle Avoidance Sensor Module
SKU: LB-LR0062 | Brand: Little Bird
This IR sensor can detect obstacles in front of it. When an object is detected the green indicator light on the board will light up. There is a low-level output signal on the OUT port.It has a detection range of...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Adafruit 9-DOF Orientation IMU Fusion Breakout - BNO085 (BNO080) - STEMMA QT / Qwiic
SKU: AF-4754 | Brand: Adafruit
The BNO085 from Hillcrest Laboratories is a 9-DOF IMU with built-in sensor fusion — it combines accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer data on-chip and delivers ready-to-use orientation, motion detection and activi...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
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